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An Empirical Study of Determinants of Knowledge Sharing Intentions in Telecom Companies of Faisalabad

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Author

Alina Ahmad

Department

Department of Management Sciences

Program

Mphil

Institute

National University of Modern Languages

Institute Type

Public

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2015

Subject

Management Sciences

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676728792245

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Organizations have become knowledge based rather than material based and knowledge is considered as one of the most important organizational asset to gain competitive advantage. With the increasing importance of knowledge, it reinforces the need of knowledge management. Knowledge sharing is considered as the main component of knowledge management. This study is aimed to empirically examine some determinants that can impact on knowledge sharing intentions of employees in telecom companies of Faisalabad to evaluate which determinant effects most on intentions to share knowledge. In this study five determinants anticipated extrinsic rewards, anticipated reciprocal relationship, sense of self- worth, organization based self-esteem and organizational climate were used to check their impact on knowledge sharing intentions of employees. Impact of these determinants was checked on intentions of employees to share explicit and implicit knowledge. This study is quantitative in its nature and data collection was made by using convenient sampling technique. Regression analysis was used to analyze the data to get results. Anticipated extrinsic rewards, sense of self-worth, and organization based self-esteem showed negative impact on intentions to share explicit knowledge. While anticipated reciprocal relationships and organizational climate were found to be positively affecting the intentions to share explicit knowledge in telecom companies of Faisalabad.
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وہ جس میں اُسوہ کامل حلول ہوتا نہیں


وہ جس میں اُسوۂ کامل حلول ہوتا نہیں
’’قسم خدا کی محب رسولؐ ہوتا نہیں‘‘

حضورِ رب ازل ؛ مدعاے آدمؑ بھی
بغیر اسمِ محمدﷺ قبول ہوتا نہیں

بھٹکتا رہتا ہے وہ آندھیوں ، بگولوں میں
جو ذرّہ خاکِ مدینہ کی دُھول ہوتا نہیں

نبیؐ کے ذکرِ معطر میں جو بھی محو رہے
خزاں کے ہاتھوں وہ پامال پھول ہوتا نہیں

نبیؐ بھی ہم سے بشر ہیں تو پھر بتاؤ ہمیں
وحی کا ہم پہ بھلا کیوں نزول ہوتا نہیں

نظر میں جس کی رہے رحمتِ حبیبِ خداؐ
رہِ حیات میں ہرگز ملول ہوتا نہیں

خدا سے مانگو اگر صدقۂ رسولؐ خدا
قبولِ عرض میں عرفانؔ! طول ہوتا نہیں

قرآن و حدیث کی روشنی میں تعمیر کردار و شخصیت اور نصاب اسلامیات: ایک تنقیدی مطالعہ

Islam gives the idea of collective life and tries for human development. The basic idea of the teaching of Islam is that the individual must be true and active worker of society. He must have moral values and principles clearly. In addition, he tries constantly that a Muslim should perform saying of Allah and human rights properly. In this way, Islam tries to work on the behavior, morality, and habits of people and tries his best to properly enhance the different aspects of personality.  For this, the life of Prophet Muhammad? Is a complete code of life. The good characteristics of Muslims are considered praiseworthy that are truth, brotherhood, justice, forgiveness, the oneness of Allah and keepings. In the same way, the things which are condemned by Islam are bride, misery, theft, backbiting, telling lies, blaming others, self-centeredness, close vision, dishonesty, garrulous, greediness, showiness manners, jealousy,  un-obligation, clashes, hatred and etc. The philosophy of character building and personality development in Islam is the Muslims should avoid all bad works and develops good qualities in him as discussed before so that a Muslim should be a very useful and pious citizen of society. And we all know that education especially we can say that Islamic Education is a tool of change. So education is worthless if it does not create change in the minds of people and society. It is useless if it does not build the moral character regarding the personality development of the students. Islam tells us all about the values which are fruitful for humanity and are beneficial to human beings. For this purpose, it is necessary that we should give awareness of Islamic values to the people through Islamic education. It is only possible if the textbooks are designed according to the Islamic concept and values as well as teachers and parents play their effective role in the development of the personality of their children. Pakistan is a Muslim country and has its own religious, moral, political and social values and being a Muslim through an effective Islamic educational system, we can transfer these values to our new generation. Our curriculum is playing key role in the personality development and character building of the students or not is the main question so that this article is being written. In this article keeping in view the aims and objectives of the curriculum of Islamic Studies and following the Quranic verses and Hadith, we will try to analyze whether it is building the personality or character of students or not. After that, the conclusion and recommendations will be given keeping in view the analysis.

Benzotriazole Mediated Synthesis of Isopeptides, Peptides and Peptide Conjugates.

Facile synthesis of chiral N-, O and S-acyl isopeptides from tryptophan, tyrosine, and cysteine were done in single step for acquiring natural peptides via native chemical ligation (NCL). For the synthesis of chiral N-acyl isopeptides, tryptophane Cbz-(protected-α- aminoacyl)benzotriazoles were coupled with tryptophane to give Cbz-protected dipeptides. Further these dipeptides were N-acylated by Cbz-(protected-α-aminoacyl)benzotriazoles to obtain protected monoiso-tripeptides. In the synthesis of chiral O-acyl isopeptides from tyrosine Cbz-(protected-α-aminoacyl)benzotriazoles were coupled with tyrosine to give Cbzprotected dipeptides. And these dipeptides were O-acylated by Cbz-(protected-α- aminoacyl)benzotriazoles to synthesized protected monoiso-tripeptides. During the synthesis of chiral S-acyl isopeptides from cysteine Cbz-(protected-α-aminoacyl)benzotriazoles and dipeptidoyl benzotriazoles were coupled with cysteine to give Cbz-protected di and tripeptides. These cysteine containing di and tripeptides were S-acylated by Cbz-(protected- α-aminoacyl)benzotriazoles and dipeptidoyl benzotriazoles to prepare protected monoiso-tri- , tetra-, and penta-peptides. N-Acyl threonine isopeptides undergo acyl transfer in chemical ligations via 5-, 8-, 9- and 10-membered cyclic transition states to yield natural peptides, representing the first examples of successful isopeptide ligations from N-acyl threonine units. We synthesized the intermediate mono-isodipeptide to study the O-acyl migration from the oxygen to the Nterminal group of threonine amino acid sequence via a 5-membered transition state. However, it was also used as starting material to study the possibility of O- to N-acyl migration via 8-, 9- and 10-membered cyclic transition states. Mono-isodipeptide gave starting mono-isotripeptides on coupling with α-, β- or γ-amino acids for the ligation studies. To enhance migration rates, a glycine unit at the N-terminus of mono-isotripeptide - (((Benzyloxy)carbonyl)-L-alanyl)-N-((tert-butoxycarbonyl)glycyl)-L-threonine (122a) and β- and γ-amino acid units in mono-isotripeptides O-(((Benzyloxy)carbonyl)-L-alanyl)-N-(3- ((tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino)propanoyl)-L-threonine (122b) and O-(((Benzyloxy)carbonyl)- L-alanyl)-N-(4-((tert-butoxycarbonyl)amino)butanoyl)-L-threonine (122c) were used. Bocprotected mono-isodipeptide O-(((Benzyloxy)carbonyl)-L-alanyl)-N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)- L-threonine (117) was obtained by the O-acylation of Boc-protected threonine with Cbz-LAla- Bt. Chemical ligation via a 5-membered cyclic transition state of unprotected monoisodipeptide O-(((Benzyloxy)carbonyl)-L-alanyl)-L-threonine hydrochloride (118) was investigated by using microwave irradiation in aqueous conditions (pH 7.3, 1 M buffer strength) as well as basic condition (DMF-piperidine). HPLC-MS (ESI) analysis of the ligated mixtures showed both in aqueous buffer as well as DMF-piperidine the expected migration product 5 (rt 38.08, m⁄z 325.0) together with intermolecular bis-acylation product 120 (rt 60.58, m⁄z 530.1). HPLC-HRMS, via (+) ESI-MS, confirmed that the ligated product 119 (rt 38.08, m⁄z 325.0) and starting mono-isohexapeptide 4 (rt 34.61, m⁄z 325.0) produced different MS patterns. Chemical ligation via a 8-, 9- and 10-membered cyclic transition state showed under aqueous conditions, (pH 7.3, 1 M buffer strength), 123a–c did not form the desired ligated products 124a–c or bis-acylated products 125a–c. Microwave irradiation of 123b in piperidine–DMF gave migration product 124b (57%) and intermolecular bisacylation product 125b (36%) as observed by HPLC-MS. We also observed bis-acylated product 125c in case of 123c. HPLC-MS, via (−)ESI-MS/MS, confirmed that 123b and 124b, had different fragmentation patterns, thus proving the formation of intramolecular ligated product 124b via a 9-membered TS. intramolecular acyl transfer through 5- and 9- membered transition states was favored over 8- and 11-membered transition state in basic condition. To synthesize quinolone and floroquinolone bis-conjugates, the carboxylic group of nalidixic acid and oxolinic acid were activated by using benzotriazole in presence of thionyl chloride. The Boc-protected aminoacylbenzotriazoles 129a–f were treated with ciprofloxacin 103 and norfloxacin 104 in the presence of triethylamine in DMF to obtain the conjugates 130a–f and 131a-f. The Boc-protected amino acid–antibiotic conjugates 130a–f and 131a-f were deprotected with a 1,4-dioxane–HCl mixture to give the unprotected amino acid–antibiotic conjugates 132a–f and 133a-f, which further were used in the next step without characterization. The target bis-conjugates 133a-f, 134a–f, 136a-f and 137a-f were prepared by coupling unprotected amino acid–antibiotic conjugates 132a–f and 135a-f with the benzotriazolide of nalidicxic acid 104 and oxolinic acid 105 in the presence of triethylamine in DMF. Few synthesized quinolones reveal mild antibacterial properties against Staphylococcus aureus (Gram positive bacteria) including 136a, 136d, and 137b (MIC = 32.9, 28.6and 30.6μM, respectively). Only compound 133f exhibits potent antibacterial properties against Staphylococcus aureus (MIC = 3.3 μM). These observations seem encouraging where, the starting precursors 101, 102, and 104 exhibit weak antibacterial properties (MIC = 3772.6, 3914.4, and 1345.6 μM, respectively) and 103 views mild properties (MIC = 74.4 μM) against Staphylococcus aureus. Additionally, only compound 133b among all the tested quinolones, exhibits promising antibacterial properties (MIC = 7.8 μM) against Streptococcus pyogenes (Gram positive bacteria) considering that, the starting precursors 101, 102, 103,and 104 reveal weak antibacterial properties (MIC = 3772.6, 1957.2, 2383.5, and 1345.6 μM, respectively) against this tested microorganism. On the other hand, most of the starting quinolone antibiotics (101, 102, 103, and 104) used in the present study reveal potent properties (MIC = 7.2, 7.5, 9.2, and 10.3 μM, respectively) against Salmonella Typhi (Gram negative bacteria). Synthesized quinolones 134a, and 134b reveal promising potency (MIC = 7.6, and 7.4 μM, respectively). Other synthesized analogues (133b, and 134f) exhibit mild antibacterial properties (MIC = 15.7, and 25.5 μM, respectively) against Salmonella Typhi. It has also been noticed that, none of the synthesized quinolones reveal either potent or mild properties against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Gram negative bacteria, MIC ≥ 409.2 μM) considering that the starting quinolines 101, and 102 used in the present study reveal mild properties (MIC = 14.5, and 15.0 μM, respectively), but 103, and 104 view weak antibacterial properties (MIC = 74.4, and 336.3 μM, respectively). The QSAR model predicted MIC values due to all the potent antibacterial active agents against Salmonella Typhi are close to the experimental ones suggesting that the model is statistically significant (e.g. compounds 101, 102, 103, 104, 134a, and 134b, with observed MIC values = 7.2, 7.5, 9.2, 10.3, 7.6, and 7.4 μM; predicted MIC values = 7.0, 8.6, 7.6, 11.9, 11.6, and 9.8 μM; giving error values = 0.2, -1.1, 1.6, -1.6, -4.0, and -2.4, respectively). The same appears to be the case for the compounds exhibiting mild antibacterial potency (e.g. compound 133b, with observed MIC value = 15.7μM, against predicted value = 14.9 μM, error value = 0.8). Moreover, all the weak antibacterial active agents reveal high error values due to high difference between the observed and predicted MIC’s explaining that the attained QSAR model is applicable only to the highly potent and mild antibacterial agents against Salmonella Typhi, suggesting that the QSAR model has a good predictive capacity.